Euripides, Alcestis, ed. Gilbert Murray, 455

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Χορός

εἴθ’ ἐπ’ ἐμοὶ μὲν εἴη,
455

δυναίμαν δέ σε πέμψαι

φάος ἐξ Ἀίδα τεράμνων

καὶ Κωκυτοῖο ῥεέθρων

ποταμίᾳ νερτέρᾳ τε κώπᾳ.

σὺ γὰρ ὤ, μόνα, ὦ φίλα γυναικῶν,
460

σὺ τὸν αὑτᾶς

ἔτλας πόσιν ἀντὶ σᾶς ἀμεῖψαι

ψυχᾶς ἐξ Ἅιδα. κούφα σοι

χθὼν ἐπάνωθε πέσοι, γύναι. εἰ δέ τι

καινὸν ἕλοιτο πόσις λέχος, ἦ μάλ’ ἂν ἔμοιγ’ ἂν εἴη

στυγηθεὶς τέκνοις τε τοῖς σοῖς.
465

Alcestis. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1902.

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Ἄλκηστις (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.)

Translations (3)

Alcestis Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.) — 455 focus

Chorus

Would it were in my power and range to bring thee to the light from the chambers of Hades and the streams of Cocytus with the oar that sweeps yon nether flood!
455

For thou, and thou alone, most dear of women, hadst the courage to redeem thy husband from Hades in exchange for thy own life. Light lie the earth above thee, lady! And if ever thy lord take to him a new wife, I vow he will earn my hatred
460

and thy children’s too.
465

Alcestis (OCR draft) Experimental (Alcestis. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

No corresponding passage available

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1841; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 1, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1841. Harvard OCR compared with an independent BSB copy. Native Donner verse citations, Murray reference cards, explicitly located notes and page facsimiles. Unresolved OCR, verse divisions, unlocated notes and printed errata are documented in the source review.) — 455 focus

Stånd' es in meiner Macht, und

Könnt' ich wieder zurück dich

An das Licht von des Hades Hause

Führen, heim vom Kokytos,
445

Rudernd über den Strom der Todten!

Denn du nur, o du, der Frauen liebste,

Du hattest den Muth, den theuren Gemahl mit deinem

Leben

Von dem Tode zu lösen: o mige der Staub

Leicht die Gebeine dir decken, Frau!
450

Wenn er ein neues Gemahl sich erwählete;

Wahrlich, ich müßt ihn hassen,

Verhaft würd' er deinen Kindern.

Gegenstrophe 2.

Euripides Alcestis 455

ed. Gilbert Murray

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